Lotty Hough Explained

Charlotte Hough (c. 1833 – January 17, 1896), known as Lotty Hough, sometimes spelled Lottie Hough, was a 19th-century actress and comedian. She played roles for the companies of Laura Keene and Mrs. John Wood.^{[1] [2]}

She debuted in New York at the Bowery Theatre in The Stranger as Charlotte Hough. She also acted in London.^[3] Around 1871 she gave a lecture tour on "Popping The Question".^[4]

During the U.S. Civil War, she was involved in obtaining passes to get cotton through Union lines.^[5]

T. Allston Brown's History of the American Stage (1870) described Hough as a "well known impersonator of Yankee characters" with "considerable talent."^[6]

Selected performances (incomplete)

• The Seven Sisters (1860 in New York) (also performed in productions elsewhere)
• Seven Sons (1861) (New York)
• The Serious Family (1862, Washington D.C.)
• Yankee Legacy as Mehitable Ann (1863, New York)^[7]

Notes and References

1. (9 September 1861). Amusements, The New York Times
2. (4 December 1862). Return of A Popular Actress, Daily National Republican, p. 2, col. 5
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=B0QjlkLi6-sC&pg=PA128 A History of the New York Stage, Vol. I
4. (22 November 1871). The Great Question of the Day (advertisement), Boston Evening Transcript
5. Furgurson, Ernest B. Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War, p. 209 (2004)
6. Brown, T. Allston. History of the American Stage, p. 185 (1870)
7. (16 December 1863). Amusements, The New York Times